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Educator Empowerment

Behind each student inspired around STEM is an inspiring STEM educator.

We support teacher training and professional development programs, with a focus on science and chemistry teachers. Dow STEM Ambassadors, trained employee volunteers, partner with local teachers to conduct demonstrations classrooms, infuse lesson plans with real world examples, and ensure the teacher is aware of the programs Dow provides in the community to support their work.

Key Collaborations

100K in 10 is a multi-sector mobilization that responds to the national imperative to train 100,000 excellent science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers over the coming years. As one of many partners supporting 100k in 10, Dow is passionate about preparing the next generation of innovators in STEM.

Dow has become the sole founding partner of theAmerican Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT), a first of its kind community to bring together chemistry teachers, invigorate chemistry education and support STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in US schools. Dow and AACT will convene a series of teacher summits and create more than 750 lesson plans, multimedia resources, demonstrations and other high-quality chemistry teaching materials for use in K­–12 classrooms.

AACT was launched by the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.

Committed to promoting science education among youth, Dow Thailand collaborated with the Chemical Society of Thailand under the Royal Patronage to initiate the “Dow Chemistry Class” hands-on science project. The project aims to train science teachers in secondary and high schools to apply small-scale chemistry laboratory techniques.

Since 2013, more than 2,000 chemistry laboratory kits have been distributed, reaching 178 teachers in 58 schools. More than 5,700 students have benefited from the project.

Dow India helps bring innovative environmental education into the classroom through teacher training. Together with Trailblazers, an Indian organization focused on environmental education, they created training for teachers that gives them the tools they need to return to the classroom and share relevant knowledge about the environment and sustainability.

Since the program’s inception in 2009, 1,000 teachers and education students have attended the workshops and are now sharing their knowledge with upwards of 400,000 students across India.

Dow has partnered with the Smithsonian Science Education Center to bridge the connection between the classroom and the real world, through the Dow Smithsonian Teacher Scholars professional development program and the joint development of hands on activities for Ambassadors to bring into classrooms.